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A trackback is one of four types of linkback methods for website authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents. This enables authors to keep track of who is linking to their articles. Some weblog software, such as SilverStripe,WordPress, Drupal, and Movable Type, supports automatic pingbacks where all the links in […]
I wrote in the post Do you really know who’s visiting your website? about how often hackers probe my websites. IT Security News has of today this: 5,914 blocked malicious login attempts / was 2092 on May 8th 2,182 spam comments blocked by Akismet. / was 2115 on May 8th The login attempts more than doubled in just 5 […]
My blog post “What is a security expert?” which I published in the (ISC)2 Blog was mentioned in the (ISC)2 EMEA Newsletter: Germany’s Sorin Mustaca, CSSLP takes an analytic look at what it means to be an information security professional, also on the (ISC)² Blog
I added a new widget on the right side of the blog which allows someone to follow my posts.
Starting as of today, I enabled the comments on my blog sorin-mustaca.com . It is an experiment to see if someone really posts and to see also how much spam do I get.
I finally found some time to change the website from the old design in dark colors to a WordPress (statical) blog. The new design is simpler and it is only on one single level. I got rid of all the old things and left only what is relevant. Here is the structure with links: Home […]
Just stumbled upon this blog post from Symantec http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/spammers-introduce-new-email-internet-headers where an absolutely normal spam process is described. Unfortunately for the author who clearly doesn’t understand Romania, he copied/pasted all headers, even those which he doesn’t understand. So, he copied all kind of bad words, things which you usually wouldn’t publish in a serious blog. I […]
Since I heard the first time about AMTSO (Anti Malware Testing Standards Organization), in one of the VB Conferences (I think two years ago), I asked myself whether or not this association makes sense. I’ve heard later on that Avira is also part of it. But, I simply forgot about this issue. I recently started […]
Just have a look at the screenshot… The problem is that they allow any registered user to post whatever he/she wants without any moderation. This is also my post with a reply to the spammer’s post.
